What this election needs is a face off

Life on Tapp with Blaise Tapp SUS-160516-112125001

We are four weeks into a seemingly never ending General Election campaign, one which is only creating excitement among avid players of political bingo.

Although, until last week’s Chuckle Brothers-esque leaking of the Labour Party manifesto, the countdown to June 8 has been a dull fest, there has been plenty for political geeks to tick off their score cards.

We’ve had the car crash interviews, the endless rhetoric, the awkward photo opportunities (something which our Prime Minister appears to specialise in) and the battle buses.

But one of the key narratives of the first month in the race to Westminster has been the disconnect between the politicians and the electorate. While this is nothing new, much has been made about the ignorance of those who are being asked to choose a parliamentary representative in three weeks.

There have some journalists who have taken to social media to mock the lack of understanding from those who care little about the machinations of Government. One reported on social media how a woman he interviewed said that ‘politics isn’t my thing - I think I voted for Labour at the Referendum’. This prompted much harrumphing from those who expect their fellow Brits to take the same level of interest in party politics that they do.